Re: Commit cb83b62 fails to boot with a divide by zero error.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri May 11 2012 - 12:02:31 EST


On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 10:55 -0500, Robin Holt wrote:
>
> It is a four blade (8 socket 80 core 160 hyper-thread machine) with 40
> GB of RAM.

Ok, big but not ridiculously so.. I'll try and see if I can find
anything.

> Looking at the earlier kernel messages, I am wondering if I don't have a
> BIOS that is giving me crud. I have messages about hyperthreads being
> on different nodes. That had not been happening in the past. I don't
> have access to the machine now, but the BIOS string that had printed
> out is from a developer's debug version.
>
> When I get access to the machine again (likely not until Monday), I
> will flash a release BIOS and retest. Until then, please feel free to
> ignore me.

No need, that's another (known) bug..

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133673488311294&w=2


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